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(18) But how does the soul enter into body from the aloofness
of the Intellectual?
There is the Intellectual-Principle which remains among the
intellectual beings, living the purely intellective life; and
this, knowing no impulse or appetite, is for ever stationary in
that Realm. But immediately following upon it, there is that
which has acquired appetite and, by this accruement, has already
taken a great step outward; it has the desire of elaborating
order on the model of what it has seen in the
Intellectual-Principle: pregnant by those Beings, and in pain to
the birth, it is eager to make, to create. In this new zest it
strains towards the realm of sense: thus, while this primal soul
in union with the Soul of the All transcends the sphere
administered, it is inevitably turned outward, and has added the
universe to its concern: yet in choosing to administer the
partial and exiling itself to enter the place in which it finds
its appropriate task, it still is not wholly and exclusively held
by body: it is still in possession of the unembodied; and the
Intellectual-Principle in it remains immune. As a whole it is
partly in body, partly outside: it has plunged from among the
primals and entered this sphere of tertiaries: the process has
been an activity of the Intellectual-Principle, which thus, while
itself remaining in its identity, operates throughout the soul to
flood the universe with beauty and penetrant order- immortal
mind, eternal in its unfailing energy, acting through immortal
soul.
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